Hi, again! Well, we just finished another short little project and I will tell you a little bit about this project. Well, first of all it is a chase game. So, the player's’ character, or sprite, is getting a chased by a computer controlled sprite. Anyways, so I will tell you about how I thought of the user that would be playing my games. First of all I thought of the time, I thought that time would be a big thing. I mean, you don’t want the user to get bored, when playing your game. For example, when I first created my chase game inscratchI set the scoreboard to say that every ten seconds you get 1 point, and when you get 10 points you win, however I figured that the user would get bored pretty fast. To win it would be a least like almost 2 minutes. So, to fix that problem all I did was I decreased the time so that instead of every 10 seconds you score a point, now it only takes 5 seconds to score a point, and that way it only takes the user about 50 seconds to win the game. And that is how I thought of the users experience when creating my games in scratch.Well, each of my games are really different. First of all, one of my games is a chase game, where a user controlled sprite (a monkey named Bob) is being chased by two other computer controlled sprites which are ghosts. In that game, every, say maybe 6 seconds, it changes the background. I’m pretty sure that it has 4 different backgrounds. Anyway, my second game is a platformer game. This is where a dinosaur has to jump to different moving platforms to get to a little ball and that is where it changes levels. However, when you get to the first ball you change levels, and move onto level 2. After you get the little ball on level 2, you win! And that is just a little bit about my two scratch games that I made.

Well, with these amazing games and animations, come bugs. Bugs are basically just technical errors that you find in your games. So, I have definitely experienced many bugs just in this short time period. I mean, I am a beginner so you can’t blame me……….RIGHT? Anyways, some examples of those bugs was, one time I finally figured out how to make it say YOU WIN!” when you get to a certain amount of points, but for some reason it was saying it like five different times all around the screen, and it didn’t make sense. Until, I found that I put that little area of code in every different sprite when it was only supposed to say it in the main sprites area of code. So, once i figured that out my game ended a lot smoother. Anyways, what I am trying to say is that I worked really hard and put a lot of effort into it, however it will never end up to be perfect… and you just have to accept that. And that is just a little lesson that I learned in this short little coding project.

Nice job on your game. I like how the background changes and the ghost that says " Better run" speeds up. Some times the two ghosts can cause the user to get trapped. Try to slow it down by a few steps. Other than that, your game is really fun and very addicting.

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Treysen

12/1/2015 01:10:20 pm

great job Ashley, I like how your sprites move smoothly. But, you should consider of getting points faster. Also, you should make your spites change costumers. Over all, its very good, keep the good work. :)

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elijah

12/1/2015 01:12:32 pm

I like how you characters move so smoothly around the stage . Also on how you change the background every 5 seconds. Maybe you should make the gost sprites go slower and not so fast. But you did an awesome job on the game

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Loren W.

12/2/2015 01:09:26 pm

Awesome game! I really like how you made the backgrounds switch in during the gameplay. What I would recommend is making the game end what the timer hits 0. It went on to -1,-2,-3 and so on. What I also liked is how complex the ghosts movement was. One chased the monkey while the other glided from one place to another. It was overall a really cool game!

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Tyler Tanaka

12/10/2015 11:01:09 am

Wow! Nice game Ashley! I really liked how you were able to smoothly create two levels, while ending it perfectly! Although, can you try making the dinosaur jump a bit higher? Overall, I believe that this game is great! Especially because of the backgrounds and the moving ground!

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Denae

12/10/2015 11:10:07 am

The sprite jumps and moves around smoothly. Maybe you could remove a few of the platforms or make them move a little faster so the game doesn't finish as fast. I really like how you used two sprites as the dots. Overall, great game!

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Max Morimoto

12/14/2015 07:21:45 pm

I like the music of your chase game but with two ghosts, it is pretty difficult. I also can't get points as quickly.

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Alina Puig

12/14/2015 08:14:54 pm

Hey Ashley! I really like how challenging the game is! I remember you mentioning that to me during morning news but I didn't think it'd be that hard! Anyways, I think you should make you time stop at zero. You can put the programming " if TIME = 0 then stop this script". That way it'll stop. Anyways, I really like how your background is constantly changing. Nice job!

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Hershel

12/15/2015 10:37:28 am

I really like how one ghost is following you and the other isn't. I think maybe you can make the monkeys walking look a bit more realistic. Also I like the originality of your character, it isn't everyday you see a monkey getting chased by a ghost!

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Blossom

12/15/2015 11:59:08 am

I liked that the backgrounds changed it was a cool feature. I think you could make the sprites a bit smaller. I liked that you thought outside of the box for your chase game it was really different.

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Steven

12/15/2015 01:08:21 pm

I think this game is great! It works well and runs smoothly. I like the way the blocks and gravity work.
Although it's a bit quick. It feels like it's over to quickly almost.
Other than that I feel like its over to quickly because i like it.